Keir Starmer has said there are “too many prisoners and not enough prisons” as he hit out at the monumental failures in the justice system caused by the Conservatives. Watch in for more details!

UK PM Keir Starmer intends to bring number of prisoners down

Disgraced former pop star Gary Glitter has been freed from prison after serving 16-year jail term. Gary was sentenced in 2015 for attempted rape and assault. Watch further to know more.

Disgraced former pop star Gary Glitter freed from prison

In a bid to improve and overhaul its prison systems, Egypt is allowing female inmates to exhibit artwork & knitting at the centre.

Egypt is overhauling prisons & improving human rights as female inmates exhibit artwork & knitting

New York’s prison system unjustly penalized more than 1,600 incarcerated people based on faulty drug tests, putting them in solitary confinement, delaying their parole hearings and denying them family visits, the New York state inspector general said in a damning report released Tuesday.

New York prisons punished 1,600 based on faulty drug tests, report finds

In the torturous history of the US government’s black sites, the FBI has long been portrayed as acting with a strong moral compass. Its agents, disgusted with the violence they saw at a secret CIA prison in Thailand, walked out, enabling the bureau to later deploy “clean teams” untainted by torture to interrogate the five men accused of conspiring in the attacks of September 11, 2001.

FBI agents became CIA operatives in secret overseas prisons

New York officials on Monday announced plans to close six state prisons early next year, one of the largest such closings by the state as its prisoner population continues to decline.

Why New York is closing 6 prisons?

'Prison, not punishment': These are some of the nicest jails around the world

In October 2019, a prison officer who worked at a juvenile detention center in Central Texas was charged with sexual assault and accused of forcing a boy in custody to perform oral sex on him in his cell.

Complaints against Texas’ juvenile prisons include violence and sex abuse

As mass coronavirus testing expands in prisons, large numbers of inmates are showing no symptoms. In four state prison systems -- Arkansas, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia -- 96% of 3,277 inmates who tested positive for the coronavirus were asymptomatic, according to interviews with officials and records reviewed by Reuters. That’s out of 4,693 tests that included results on symptoms.

US prisons struggle to combat COVID-19 crisis

President John Magufuli on Monday ordered that around 5,500 inmates be freed from Tanzania's overcrowded prisons at a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the country's independence from colonial rule.

Tanzania to free 5,500 inmates from overcrowded prisons

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has offered big bounties for hundreds of convicted murderers and rapists set free in a corrections bureau blunder and said he would be happier if they were caught dead rather than alive.

Preferably dead: President Duterte offers cash for the capture of freed Filipino felons

Twenty-nine detainees were killed and 19 police officers were wounded in a confrontation in a cellblock in central Venezuela in what a state official called a failed escape attempt, but human rights groups described as a massacre.

Twenty-nine detainees killed in Venezuela police station cellblock riot

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